Action Point Tracker

This list is updated after each monthly team meeting and other important meeting. Action points are tracked from most recent to most ancient.

No	Action Point	Assigned Person	When Assigned	Status Update
135	Update publication pipeline	All	Meeting 21	Alan sent reminder e-mail to many on Mar 7 2014
134	Prepare mailing to identify all WLE/HT staff on the campus and invite them for next 'Abay Andelay' meeting prior to Africa RISING monthly team meeting 27 March	Alan, Yemisrach	Meeting 21	Alan will be travelling on Mar 27 so proposes a short roundtable for updates on HT-WLE on April 2 at 1500 in Axum. Humidtropics ILRI: Beth, Zelalem, Alan, Randall, Abeera; CIP: Britta; ICRAF: Kiros; IWMI: Teklu; AVDRC: ??? WLE: Simon
133	Discuss and prepare final mailing list	Alan, Simon, Ewen	Meeting 21
132	Update list of NBDC meeting participants with email address/phone # (for our records, not for the wiki)	Yemisrach Regassa	Meeting 21
131	Share docs Emory students with Ewen for inclusion on One NBDC wiki page (and Ewen to finalize that page)	Beth	Meeting 21
130	Draft a process document for the next IP meeting and share it with Teklu.	Zelalem	Meeting 21
129	Follow up with Fergus about ICRAF's NBDC publications	Alan, Beth, Katherine	Meeting 20, 21	To follow up. See point 135.
128	Organise follow up discussion on SLM / National Platform next steps	Kees / Simon	Meeting 20, 21	To follow up on
127	Plan a meeting around IP evaluation + next steps	Beth, Aberra, Zelalem, Gerba, Elias, Annet	Meeting 20, 21	Evaluation questions developed and data collected for Jeldu. Unclear follow up for Diga with Annet. Working with Teklu's team for Fogera.
126	Come back to N2 team to collect all outputs (blog posts, pix, digital stories, posters, presentations)	Ewen / Beth	Meeting 20	In progress. 5 blog posts collected and 3 more to come; Gerba's pictures all handed over with proper description, title, credit; poster files also processed. In process / virtually Completed
125	Send a reminder about publication pipeline update and need to acknowledge inputs (ref. to publication protocol)	Alan	Meeting 20	Completed
124	Investigate CD-Rom options with Peter Ballantyne	Ewen	Meeting 20	CompletedContact taken with consultant. Costs discussed and agreed with Alan/Simon. Works to start on this in March/April (hopefully CD-Rom completed by late April).
123	Contact various companies (DuckRabbit / ELB; Tracy/BC; BBC Media Action/Simon	Ewen, Beth, Simon	Meeting 20-21	Completed Tracy Pallant working on this (via contact with Beth) DuckRabbit won't assist as they have not prepared original material and they stay away from those assignments.
122	Review ToR to focus specifically on biophysical aspects of N2	Kata/Simon	Meeting 20	Completed - Kata has left.
121	Discuss with Gareth about progress with their respective NBDC publications	Beth	Meeting 20-21	See publications pipeline
120	Check with Teklu and other IWMI staff about NBDC publications + get publications pipeline updated	Simon	Meeting 20-21	See publications pipeline
119	Discuss specific focus of N2 evaluation	Kata / Simon	Meeting 20	Hopefully focusing on biophysical aspects of N2 work. Not done... abandoned
118	Lessons learnt from IP team	Beth, Zelalem, Aberra, Gerba, Elias...	Meeting 20	Paper underway - see publications pipeline.
117	Proposal for closing meetings at Jeldu, Diga and Fogera	Beth with the rest of IP team	Meeting 19	Completed
116	Updating the status of publication pipeline page on the wiki	All lead authors with papers in the pipeline	Meeting 19-20-21	Ongoing
115	Synthesis of digital stories and M & E materials	Beth and Annet	Meeting 19	Ongoing - working on some digital stories. Site-related digital stories unclear - 1 produced from the sites. (Fogera) ZL/ED looking for additional materials for Diga/Jeldu's M&E materials - abandoned for national/program level - up on the wiki for local sites Annet's work on reviewing the OLM results (via stakeholder interviews) planned for early 2014 Perhaps Kata to help on synthesis...
114	Follow up the development of outcome stories	Alan and Simon to talk to Terry	Meeting 19	Completed - Incorporated as part of the Basin story
113	Check with Don the status of the Livestock Water synthesis paper	Alan	Meeting 19-21	Ongoing - almost ready with 1st completed draft. Will share this with Beth in the next 2 weeks. Beth to feed into it.
112	Verify interest of national authors of the learning event presentations for publication of their papers	Simon	Meeting 19	??
111	Meet on Oct 21 at 10:30 hrs to discuss closing meeting plans	Beth (lead), Zelalem, Apollo, Elias, Randall, Tracy, Simon, Alan, Eva, Belay, Kees, Ewen	Meeting 19	Completed
110	Updates on specific thematic sections of the wiki	Gender - Beth, Annet, Tracy IPs - Zelalelm, Tsehay Livelihoods - Beth to talk to Katherine PV & WAT-A-GAME - Beth, Zelalem Policy engagements - Belay, Kees Key Messages in Mahider - Alan, Doug	Meeting 19-20-21	Ongoing
109			Meeting 18	(Never filled this row)
108			Meeting 18	(Never filled this row)
107			Meeting 18	(Never filled this row)
106	Prepare thematic discussion on sustainability of local IPs	Beth, Zelalem	Meeting 18	Completed
105	Provide inputs for website articles	ALL	Meeting 18	Ongoing. What specific items can Ewen work on, based on inputs from other team members?
104	Review specific thematic sections of the wiki	Annet, Beth/Zelalem, Katherine/Liza, Belay/Kees, Alemseged/Mengistu	Meeting 18	Ongoing
103	Discuss future of national platform and possible merger with SLM	Kees, Belay, Alan, Simon	Meeting 18	Ongoing - Simon+Belay discussing with H.E. Seleshi. Steering committee supporting integration around existing gov't structures BUT Be careful about being overwhelmed by SLM and forgetting rationale / underlying principles for NP Kees to stress underlying principles with Simon Bring technical support to SLM for this (as SLM member?)? + review existing evaluation of NBDC platforms
102	Review list of updates on the wiki and web	ALL	Wiki/web update discussion + meeting 18	Completed Discussed at team meeting 18
101	Add to agenda August team meeting: Next team meeting: schedule going through pubs pipeline + ask about archiving N-project pages + study site pages to update (feed into NBDC database) + update collectively the list of partners at August team meeting	Ewen	Wiki/web update discussion	Completed
100	Contact Michael about possible video or KMIS track to this final event	Ewen	Final workshop brainstorming meeting	Completed
99			Final workshop brainstorming meeting	Completed See action point #93 - ideas floating about this
98	Check possible events by AU, UN, SLM, CRDA etc.	Belay	Final workshop brainstorming meeting	Completed
97	Ask KMIS for ideas about companies that could organise a dynamic database to present One NBDC activity set	Ewen	Science meeting AAR	Abandoned
96	Ask about Beth & Randall about next steps with One NBDC and possibly inject next steps as proposed e.g. sortable table	Alan / Beth / ewen	Science meeting AAR	?? - a lot of scope to synthesise materials that were produced. Abandoned or nested under HT/WLE? By early next year (Beth?) as a series of rapid interviews of the people involved. - Series of outputs and tools / approaches - Key research themes to bring forward - Lessons e.g. mismatches in scale, institutional relationships...
95	Look at possible papers and what to propose (book?) and share ideas on the wiki (publication pipeline)	Alan, Don, Doug, Simon	Science meeting AAR	Ongoing
94	Organize NBDC event participants into an Excel table with all people (as rows), all events as columns and to see who came to what	Simon / Yemisrach	Science meeting after action review (AAR)	Completed by Yemisrach and Elias
93	Plan / book tentatively the final NBDC workshop	Ewen	Meeting 17	Completed
92	Bring back discussion on WLE and involving regional stakeholders at side meeting Thu.	Doug	Meeting 17	Completed
91	Follow up on preparations for Bahir Dar meeting	Kees & Belay	Meeting 17	Completed
90	Share CPWF timeline with NBDC team and put it on the wiki	Amanda	Meeting 17	Completed - In relation with Lima peer-assist
89	Look at availability of Alan's Lima presentation on Mahider	Ewen	Meeting 17	Completed and indeed it is available here
88	Share papers from science meeting over the weekend	Wolde	Meeting 17	Completed In relation with science meeting
87	Ask IWMI interns to list gaps on wiki / web	Zelalem	Meeting 17	Completed
86	Prepare overview of wiki sections and list what's out of date / what needs work	Ewen (+ possible inputs Doug)	Meeting 17	Completed
85	Contact Yemisrach to book IWMI meeting room for all meetings	Tracy	Meeting 17	Completed
84	Share pitch document to WLE prepared for Montpellier on the wiki/Yammer	Alan	Meeting 17	Completed
83	Contact session chairs to be for science meeting	Simon	Meeting 17	Completed In relation with science meeting
82	Put agenda science meeting on the wiki	Wolde	Meeting 17	Completed - in relation with science meeting
81	Coordinate printing of proceedings + uploading on USB key	Wolde + Nigist	Meeting 17	Completed In relation with science meeting
80	Set up guidelines for posters	Ewen	Meeting 17	Completed
79	Come back to Mengistu on political ecology work	Ewen + Josie	Meeting	Completed
78	Prepare a short paragraph about discussion for next NBDC team meeting on sustainability of local IPs and 2-3 lead questions	Beth + team	Meeting 16	Completed
77	Contact Nicole and Simon about possible NBDC participation at IFAD ShareFair based on information sent by Ewen	Katherine	Meeting 16	Completed
76	Organise a process to connect the 'One NBDC meeting' and the Science meeting.	Simon	Meeting 16	Completed
75	Put One NBDC input templates on the wiki + send an email to One NBDC group about them	Randall	Meeting 16	Completed
74	Prompt other abstracts based on templates from Randall	Doug	Meeting 16	Completed
73	Discuss with Katherine about possible production of abstracts for science meeting.	Mengistu	Meeting 16	Completed
72	Get back to everyone on possible system to upload One NBDC science output framework	Ewen	Meeting 16	Completed. Options are: The Brain, Prezi, Scribblar, Cmap, among others...
71	Plan a meeting to discuss the scientific approach to take our work forward in the next year	Beth, Randall	Meeting 14	Completed
70	Upload MSc / PhD theses on the publication pipeline page	Ewen	Meeting 14	Completed
69	Make a synthesis to share for peer review	Doug	Meeting 14	Refers to basin story - in progress
68	Make an outline about the 'story of the Nile Basin' this week or next	Kees	Meeting 14	Completed
67	Go review the publication pipeline and update it with details about their planned work	ALL	Meeting 14	Ongoing THIS SEEMS TO BE OUT OF DATE AGAIN.
66	Discuss who could organize this science meeting (be part of the organizing committee)	Alan & Simon	Meeting 14	Completed - Wolde Bori Mekuria
65	Doodle schedule the Science meeting	Ewen	Meeting 14	Completed
64	Develop a conversation brief template with KMIS to be used for the messages	Ewen	Meeting 14	Completed and available here
63	Summarize 2-pager from NP4 meeting	Kees	Meeting 14	Completed
62	Send both NP4 meeting 2-pagers to Kees (Ewen's version and Kees's version) for him to summarise this	Ewen	Meeting 14	Completed
61	Circulate link for the page where people can edit the messages	Ewen	Meeting 14	Completed
60	Review revised messages by 22 March	ALL	Meeting 14	Completed
59	Forward gender scan to all	Alan	Meeting 12	Forwarded to Pamela. Cathy will be following up with individuals.
58	Organize 'One NBDC' meeting with small group	Ewen	Meeting 12	Completed. The small group consists of: Ewen, Belay, Simon, Katherine, Beth, Kees, Doug, Randall.
57	Share information about his work	Fergus	Meeting 12	Completed. See polyscape tool description
56	Develop and share agenda for national platform meeting with all NBDC project staff by 25 Jan.	Ewen & Kees	Meeting 12	Completed
55	Identify possible showcasing products/ outputs/ approaches/ lessons to showcase those and share with Ewen by 13 Jan	All	Meeting 12	Completed
54	Review list of possible participants for NP meeting and share it with all	Alan, Belay, Simon	Meeting 12	Completed
53	Discuss learning event on institutional innovation in relation with Wat-a-game 2nd workshop	Zelalem, Beth, Kees	Meeting 12	Completed
52	Check contract with Don Peden	Simon	Meeting 12	Completed
51	Post project reports on the wiki	Project leaders	Meeting 12	??
50	Post draft N2 baseline on the wiki - Kees and Belay to review it (to present at NP meeting)	Alan/Katherine	Meeting 12	Posted: http://nilebdc.wikispaces.com/file/detail/Rhetoric%20versus%20realities%2026%2011%2012%20for%20wiki.docx
49	Speak to Berhanu about contract related to weather stations (SIM cards to get data daily etc.). Each site has logging equipment. SIM cards allow transmission of data. We have a contract with a consultant to pull data on the wiki...	Katherine, Simon	Meeting 11	Completed Simon to chase contract signature
48	Plan publications to feature for upcoming stakeholder meeting	Every Nile team	Meeting 11	Completed
47	Organize seminar on N2 baseline study	Ewen, Josie	Meeting 11	Completed The stakeholder/NP meeting should be a great platform for this seminar.
46	Discuss the N2 baseline study (commentary on planning and implementation of RWM interventions in Ethiopia) with Belay, share the summary of the report + the full report on the wiki + update the presentation about this 1) Michael V to send comments from Doug to Eva and Katherine and the whole team 2) Eva and Katherine to decide how to best incorporate comments 3) (optional) Doug/Larry to review updated version to make sure it is fine 4) Michael V to copy edit, layout and finalize	Josie Tucker, Eva Ludi Katherine Michael Victor	Meeting 11	Working paper drafted a year ago and tidied up by Eva + submitted to CPWF, then reviewed by Larry Harrington and Doug Merrey. It's in Doug's hands at the moment. Katherine developed a peer-reviewed article out of it. In negotiation with Journal of Dev Studies - expecting final decision next week. Third paper between Katherine and Beth to go for peer-review. Alan/Katherine to post draft on the wiki - Kees and Belay to review it (to present at NP meeting).
45	Discuss ICRAF data and what to make of it	Fergus, Randall, Lisa	Meeting 11	Reported by Fergus - data set to be ready by end of January.
44	Prepare a discussion document about the Africa rainwater management forum	Simon, Funke, Amy	Meeting 11	In prep still. Sthg planned to be ready before Pretoria meeting end of this month.
43	Update wiki with all information related to training basin authorities on modeling	Charlotte, Randall	Meeting 11	Check with Charlotte
42	Establish linkages with basin authorities	Charlotte, Randall & Belay	Meeting 11	Charlotte back week 14 Jan. and meeting coming up. Belay trying to get their contact details
41	Establish links between N2 & N4 work on decision-making at various scales using modeling	Randall Ritzema (& Beth Cullen)	Meeting 11	Coming up
40	Circulate overall NBDC report	Simon Langan	Meeting 11	Report written, sent to Amanda - pending on her check. It will be put on the wiki at a later stage. The report includes MSC stories as is, comments in 'traffic light' system etc. No red. Series of action points identified for NBDC going to management team. Individual project reports should be posted on the wiki too.
39	Draft blog post about Montpellier meeting and publish it upon receiving team comments	Ewen Le Borgne + Tilahun Amede	Discussion 14/02/2012	Completed and published.
36	Prepare next 'thematic' team meeting: pick a theme of interest	Tilahun Amede	Discussion 14/02/2012	Completed
37	Tilahun to chase Mulugeta and national partners for abstracts	Tilahun Amede	Discussion 14/02/2012	Completed
38	Update Nile Basin description text on global CPWF website	Tilahun Amede	Discussion 14/02/2012	http://waterandfood.org/basins/nile/
23	Share feedback from CPWF on six months performance to PLs	Tilahun Amede	Meeting 7	Completed
24	Decide how to further share the feedback to respective project members and to the general group	Project leaders	Meeting 7	??
25	Follow on vandalism of instruments	Birhaun Zemadim	Meeting 7	In progress
26	Discuss with Alan and Ian to work on linking crop with livestock	Kindie Getnet	Meeting 7	In progress
27	Find out common areas between the M & E tools designed for West Africa and designed by N2	Kees Swaans	Meeting 7	completed (although M&E of IPs in NBDC went into different direction)
28	Bring expereinces on protocol for Innovation platforms from other basins during the BL & PL Meeting	Tilahun Amede	Meeting 7	Completed
29	Discuss land cover data with ICRAF and other data issues with GIZ	Simon Langan	Meeting 7	Completed
30	Draft work plan including time allocation for research assistants	Tilahun Amede + Project leaders	Meeting 7
31	Set up a working group and assess interest of members plus costs, funding, potential benefit and organization to participate on World Water Week	Tilahun Amede+ Ewen Le Borgne	Meeting 7	Done and reported about here.
32	Provide publication plan	All research members	Meeting 7	??
33	Design publication protocol	Ewen Le Borgne	Meeting 7	In progress
34	Update NBDC group on further ways of promotion of change stories beyond the wiki	Tilahun Amede + Pamela Pali	Meeting 7	Completed
15	Share the feedback from the CPWF evaluation and lobby other PLs to do the same	Tilahun Amede	Meeting 6	Completed
16	Organize a one day project meeting in Sept to assess on achievement in line with available budget and originally constructed objectives plus start the discussion on-line in the mean time	Shirley Tarawali	Meeting 6	Abandoned
17	Send all presentations to CPWF for the SA Forum	Tilahun Amede	Meeting 6	Completed
19	Create a Master table for the list of participants and respective source of Funding for the SA Forum	Tilahun Amede	Meeting 6	Abandoned
20	Lead the organization of the RMS Session for the SA Forum	Tilahun Amede	Meeting 6	Completed
21	Send list of participants organized from past workshops to PLs and create a page for the Stakeholder meeting	Peter/Tseday	Meeting 6	Completed
22	Start the initiative to make students present their findings to the NBDC group and any other interested parties	Tilahun Amede	Meeting 6	Ongoing
10	Draft a short paper on innovation platforms in the NBDC	Kees Swaans	Meeting 4	completed
11	Comms straplines/names for proejcts for external audiences	Peter	Meeting 4	Ideas here
12	Consolidate a response and send to Larry according to the discussion held	Tilahun Amede	Meeting 4	Shared; this discussion will be finalized during the reflection workshop in May.
13	start communication with District leaders to facilitate community awareness	Tilahun Amede with the support of Abera and Gerba	Meeting 4	Katherine and team did it
14	Check the list for M &E with the global ones	Jemimah	Meeting 4
	debbie rms document
	amare livestock document
	catherine similarity document
	kees IP document
1	Share the overall MoU and its format	Tilahun Amede	Meeting 3	It is posted, under documents
2	Write and share a paragraph on how the overall structure of NBDC works and who is responsible for each project as well	Tilahun Amede	Meeting 3	I don't remember of this being an agenda; on halt
3	Lead a team meeting on livelihood	Kathryn Snyder	Meeting 3
4	Draft and share a template to support integration among projects	Tilahun Amede	Meeting 3	Done and posted
5	Lead a team meeting to sort the need for livelihood and modeling data for N4	Charlotte Macalister	Meeting 3	Several small meetings held
6	Lead a team on modeling	Charlotte Macalister	Meeting 3	Held a meeting - done Nile 4 meeting - January 21 2011
7	Lead a team on innovation	Kees Swaans	Meeting 3	Some initial meetings were held; later N2 and N5 moved ahead; there is still an issue of how best to integrate different levels, but will come back as an issue in AISA and in future plans for the national platform; hence completed.
8	Share inception report and respective feedback plus lead the upcoming report writing	Project Leader	Meeting 3	Tilahun done for Nile 5
9	Circulate the concept note on MSc students’ engagement to universities	Alan Duncan	Meeting 3	E-mailed to Ambo, Wollega and Bahir Dar Universities 28/12/10. 12/01/11: Amare e-mailed also to Haramaya and Hawassa Universities. 26/01/11: Received about 6 CV's from interested students so far. Will begin selection soon. Two students have now been selected following interviews done by Amare, Don, Kindu and CaST in February.